Case Study: Thomasville City Schools

Implementation cont...

With the introduction of the Activotes teachers are able to accurately gauge whether students understand various concepts – not to mention that students are more motivated to seek the correct answer – if in fact they miss the answer.

“Recently, I had to interrupt my instruction while I was teaching the concept of equivalent fractions,” said Buck.

“I asked a question and the students responded via the Activotes. The real-time assessment feature clearly indicated that some of my students misunderstood the concept. I went back through my flip charts and instantly reviewed the key components. I repeated the earlier question that had stumped some of them and this time it was clear by the responses that the entire class was ready to move ahead. The exciting thing about this was that I discovered this misunderstanding right then, not while I was grading papers that afternoon or the next day. It’s real-time teaching and learning!”